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Old Nov 15, 2012, 11:35 PM
Mogeii Mogeii is offline
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I just wanted to pop in and say im reading em all and still really appreciate all the responses! Again my hope was to show how similar/different we all are at the same time and demonstrate that nobody here is "crazy" for having triggers. A quick note to those who have mentioned sexual assault or abuse as a trigger, I have no experience with that and I can't begin to try to understand how it has effected you. I don't like putting one trigger above another in level of seriousness because thy are all relative to the individual, but those are definitely their own league of anxiety triggers. I hope one day you can come to believe or rather realize the truth that the majority of people are just minding their own business and not threats, while a small percentage are awesome people who are great to have in your life, and a much smaller percentage are scumbags.

Anywho, I see a lot of responses saying crowds, which is common as we all know of anxious people. I am an exception as crowds dont really bother me if I am not ALREADY in an anxious state. But I will add one for me:

Thinking about medications: I am really tired of everything I feel physically and mentally being first attributed to medication effects. Example, yesterday I was exhausted after 9 hours of sleep, and all I could think of was how it was my meds making me tired and ruining my quality of sleep. 1 day of tiredness with no other problems prompted me to get to a point where I was worried that I needed to fully change my meds or get off of them lol. SUCH A POINTLESS WASTE OF ENERGY. More reason to be excited for January when I start the year long process of coming off my meds . Benzos first, super slow, then after a few months hopefully coming off antidepressants slowly. Good news is my psych is on board with coming off benzos which is rare from what I can tell about psychs lol. Antidepressants on the other hand may take some convincing as he really doesn't believe in any "alternative" treatments outside of CBT. Vitamins, positive thinking, spiritual (not religious) discovery are where im throwing my effort into, but he thinks they are at best placebos. But he works for me right? Haha.